Girls. Adolescence, Fashion and Rebellion

Preview: written before the show opened

To build this show, MoMu in Antwerp ran focus groups with "girls" aged 9 to 19, and for a video with director Leonardo Van Dijl its curator interviewed "girls" aged 9 to 90. The Grand Palais has adapted the Antwerp version, which closed in February, for Galleries 8.

You start with the history of what Western girls were made to wear: children's clothes turned practical in the 19th century, but girls' stayed decorative and restrictive for much longer. Four sections follow: teenage memories in adult work, boredom, archetypes (ribbons, uniforms, ballet flats, miniskirts) and girls in books, magazines, zines and online. Louise Bourgeois, Alice Neel and Meret Oppenheim appear alongside Martin Margiela, Simone Rocha and Chopova Lowena, plus Sofia Coppola film clips. A show about teenagers, made with teenagers, which is more consultation than anyone got over their school uniform.

No reviews of the Paris version yet. Tickets are 15 euros, 12 reduced, free under 18. Enter by Square Jean Perrin. Open 10:00 to 19:30, Fridays until 22:00, closed Mondays.